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This post describes how you can backup your partition table for future recovery. Backup This example describes how you can backup the disk partition table on /dev/sda dd if=/dev/sda of=sda.mbr bs=512 count=1 It’s also useful to keep a human readable copy of the disk layout for future reference sudo fdisk -l > partitions.lst Restore This […]
Today I’ve setup a cold backup routine to backup my Zimba installation running on my Debian (Etch) 4.0 server that is in full production now for my private domains. This is a slightly modified backup script for the Open Source Edition of Zimbra from the Zimbra Wiki. Please note that the script does a full […]
This bach script makes separate backup files of all the databases in mysql and saves the result in the mysql_backup folder. #!/bin/bash -v USERNAME=’yourusername’ PASSWORD=’yourpassword’ HOSTNAME=’yourhostname’ BackupFolder=’/backup’ for i in $(echo ‘SHOW DATABASES;’ | mysql –user $USERNAME -p$PASSWORD -h $HOSTNAME | grep -v ‘^Database$’ ); do mysqldump –user $USERNAME -p$PASSWORD -h $HOSTNAME –opt $i > […]
#!/bin/bash # Shell script to backup MySql database # To backup Nysql databases file to /backup dir and later pick up by your # script. You can skip few databases from backup too. MyUSER=”SET-MYSQL-USER-NAME” # USERNAME MyPASS=”SET-PASSWORD” # PASSWORD MyHOST=”localhost” # Hostname # Linux bin paths, change this if it can’t be autodetected via which […]
dd bs=1M if=/dev/hda | gzip | ssh user@remote ‘dd of=hda.gz’